protective covering

Questions about protective covering

What does protective covering mean?

protective covering means "a covering that is intend to protect from damage or injury". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for protective covering?

Close synonyms include protective cover, protection. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is protective covering a common word?

protective covering is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.